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denankius
Beleive it or not I just got out of my borrachera to write the following.
I do confess I am under the spirits.
Only to write that as nothingness is concerned we might have a word that denotes a neo nuance we've yet to reckon with.
The good old Southwest provides us: Denankius.
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Distinguishing zero from O
The oval-shaped zero and circular letter O together came into use on modern character displays. The zero with a dot in the centre seems to have originated as an option on IBM 3270 controllers (this has the problem that it looks like the Greek letter Theta). The slashed zero, looking identical to the letter O other than the slash, is used in old- ( Read more... ) -
History of zero: wiki
The Long Count calendar developed in south-central Mexico required the use of zero as a place-holder within its vigesimal (base-20) positional numeral system. A shell glyph --Image:MAYA-g-num-0-inc-v1.svg -- was used as a zero symbol for these Long Count dates, the earliest of which (on Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas) has a date of 36 BC. ( Read more... ) -
wiki stuff
The word zero comes through the Arabic literal translation of the Sanskrit śūnya, meaning void or empty, into ṣifr (صفر) meaning empty or vacant. Through transliteration this became zephyr or zephyrus in Latin. The word zephyrus already meant "west wind" in Latin; the proper noun Zephyrus was the Roman god of the west wind (after the Greek god ( Read more... ) -
Null
The very idea that gave rise to Mayan Zero is a reckoning factor in various mathematical formulations and, hold your breath now, a result. Nothing is a result of arduos mathematical research.
There are even theories to be reckoned with. Null cancels and gives a way.
Wikipedia has more on the subject
Null
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Nada: born
In spanish, the word nada has an interesting past of sorts. nada (del lat. «res nata», cosa nacida Diccionario de uso del español, María Moliner.
Something is born out of nothing while in english, its supposed translation, that is, nothing, means something else. 1 a : something that does not exist. Please refer to No-thing for further analysis and ( Read more... ) -
to say nothing of you
to say(ing) nothing of you + definite article the, adjective ending in ly or ing means the same as saying not to mention the fact that
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Zilch
Zilch is the epitome of nothing. In our language, it is categorized as having no etymology. No one knows exactly where this word came from. Merriam Webster simply states that its Origin is Unknown. Two synonyms, however, are provided: Zero and Nothing. -
My lips are sealed
Incredibly enough it is posible to say nothing. It is one of the most perplexing phenomena in the english language. Yet far from being it a unique experience in the english language we find that it is a universal phenomena reaching across most of the european languages. No digas nada beg some in spanish with various undertones and overtones when ( Read more... ) -
White space, empty space and a small retainer for more space.
At the human level, the being, the ent, sentient aspect, nothingness is a matter of full interests to us since it encompasses a huge aspect of a persons life ( Read more... )